/sci/ - Science & Math

Well, we still haven't figured out exactly what causes the disappearances over the Bermuda Triangle yet.....key word 'exactly'. We've got a hypothesis or 2.

>>2599285
Yes, you will get plenty og ideas with proposed hypothesis which will sort of ruin the fun, but there are quite a few things without definitive answers, including some UFO sightings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grinning_Man

Two things I can immediately think of that science can't explain. I remember my physics teacher telling us all about them in year 6 and about how the Men In Black visited him after a UFO sighting. It still scares me to this day to wonder what they are. What's even more scary is to know that they are out there yet no effort is being made to stop them.

My friend was once telling me that when Sherlock Holmes died he claimed to hold the key to a secret organization that the general population and Government where not aware of, but it was never found out what he was talking about.

I don't know if it's true and I can't remember all the details my friend gave me but it's still pretty cool to think that there might be a secret organization out there to this day that is still unknown to all.

>>2599305
>>2599315

You're a pair of retards.

study the great pyramid at Giza, and then come back and say there's no mysteries left

>>2599315

>>2599319
What about the pyramid specifically should I be looking for?

>>2599331
dimensions; placement; virtual perfection; difficulty of construction; knowledge of the earth's circumference and mass; astrological features; you'll see

there's a ton of freaky stuff about that thing, and the scary part is, we couldn't build it today if we wanted to

well yeah sure there are plenty of things that are still kind of mysterious and vague

take, for instance, the deep ocean! We have mapped very little of it, and we are constantly discovering new and fascinating species.

Also our own bodies! We understand a lot about how our bodies work, and how cellular life in general functions, but there are still some things that we aren't exactly clear on. Specifically: the brain!

Lightning is also a pretty interesting thing, though to see the real interesting bits, you'd have to take a pretty keen interest into the actual functions of a lightning bolt. We've discovered that they do some pretty weird things, actually!

There are plenty of weird and mysterious things left in the world, it's just that they aren't exactly obvious! We just need to do some more exploring, that's all.

>>2599353

>we couldn't build it today if we wanted to

Just get done watching the history channel, huh?

>>2599362
Query: Is there any estimated limit on how deep down the ocean we can travel with the materials we have available for us today?

>>2599366
no, an article i'll try to link here: http://www.raptureready.com/featured/kelley/jack161.html

>>2599372
the Trieste went down 35,810 feet into the mariana trench; i think that is the record

>>2599377
>raptureready

>>2599388
can't get one by you :)

>>2599372
the deepest known part of the ocean is Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench which is to the east of the Philippines. It's like 35,797 feet, which is about the distance from the Earth that a commercial jet plane cruises at. We've been down there, it was in 1960, the manned submersible Trieste. We've been down there more recently in unmanned robot thingers since then.

HOWEVER, it is unknown whether there may or may not be a spot in the ocean that is in fact deeper than Challenger Deep, though there is a limit of depth, because the crust only goes down so far underneath the ocean.

>>2599388

>>2599394
So we have potentially already gone as deep as there is to go?

>>2599315
>he thinks sherlock holmes was real

>>2599433
Hey, I thought Sherlock Holmes was real until entering this thread.

My life has been a lie :(

>>2599430
yeah, potentially

but it's like going to visit the top of the tallest mountain *once*

there are plenty of other fascinating places under the ocean that are way cooler for way cooler reasons than "it's the deepest"

have you heard about these lakes under the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine_pool

they're pretty awesome

Aliens.

Aliens.

>>2599353
>we couldn't build it today if we wanted to
Sage for utter inanity

>>2599319
>>2599353

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_UFO_incident

We still have no fucking idea what caused the above.

Why does lightning happen? Can you explain why it happens?

>>2599860
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning

>>2599829
Jesus fuck, that's scary.

bump

>>2599285
Methane Gas

And about the oceans.... there is no kraken, just loads of dead organic matter and thermal vents... maybe a tube worm or albino looking crab

>>2600425
oh yeah, and then these things too

>>2599860

as far as my elementary school knowledge goes... something do with negative charge in the clouds, positive charge in the ground *maybe opposite* and that energy needs to connect so it takes the least resistant path through the air and hits the ground...

i think

>>2600438
oh and these things

>>2600438

yeah some of those... and those weird sharks... and some sperm whale along with some giant squid..

but other than that its pretty useless place

>>2600461
then these things

what's going on in this thread

i herd there was some deep sea shit goin on

herro

I still see no kraken

long story short, buddy, life has been doing shit under the surface of the ocean for billions of years

the deep ocean is one of the most incredibly bio diverse ecosystems out there

>>2600489
what's so cool about the kraken

you into tentacle rape or summat?

here's a kraken for you

>>2600492

I never said there wasn't life down there... its just not what people are thinking

its just a bunch of ugly ass fish that adapted to low light and high pressure... whats so amazing about that?

its no different than how we adapted

>>2600517
are you implying that the fact that human beings have been able to use tools to adapt to their environments is not incredibly fascinating when compared to say, bacteria?

Deep sea flora and fauna are incredibly well suited for their environment, even more than anything on land, seeing as how they've been going at it for some several hundreds of millions of years longer than us

>>2600517
what do you mean not what people are thinking? I don't really understand what you mean by that.

>>2600524

Thats because the environment hasn't changed since their arrival. The surface is constantly changing while they just sit there till the end of days doing the exact same thing they always have been doing.

>>2600540
the entire planet is one big system, anything that happens on the surface of this planet has a direct effect on the marine ecosystems. You cannot say that the depths of the ocean have remained unchanged while the surface of the Earth changes.

>>2600532

stfu, deep sea biologists try to make people the bottom of the ocean sound like some massive underground mystery.. but it's just the same shit every time.

Send some multi-million dollar machine down there to look at some fucking plant or find some butch looking fish.

The only thing I give them approval of is how they can find some of the simplest organisms down there that can help us better understand how we arrived here.

>>2599285

>disappearances in the bermuda triangle

>he thinks that there are more disasters there than any random stretch of ocean

You see, when aliens

>>2600553

yes I can, because an ice age doesn't really do wrong to something so far down its either heated by thermal vents or so cold they don't don't even notice..

look at a jellyfish, they have been here since the beginnings of life... and they haven't changed that much since then. Why? Because there isn't anything to change..

Their efficiency comes from their lack of complexity

>>2600560
only one hundred years ago, it was believed that the bottom of the ocean was simply a big sandy plain that stretched from continent to continent. Now we know that the bottom of the ocean is just as varied and diverse as any mountain range.

It's exactly the same concerning life. It was once thought that the depths of the ocean were completely lifeless. Now we know that this is far from the truth. In fact the very stuff that makes up the abyssal plains is saturated with microbial life. As I have said, the abyss is filled with just as many, or even more species than any rainforest. If you think that they all look ugly, sure that's okay.

It's ignorant to believe that the depths of the ocean have remained the same since life first came about there. There has been just as much or even more change to life in the abyss as there has been for life on the surface. The ocean is an incredibly dynamic environment, if only because there is an extra dimension to be aware of.

Sorry if you think that the fish down there are ugly, and that makes it lame, but that's how reality works. Things are amazing, if you care to examine it closely enough.

>>2600598
I'm dropping this argument because you are obviously not educated enough to discuss this

it is entirely incorrect to say that any part of this planet is truly isolated